Scandal Charges

May 24, 1985

BONN, WEST GERMANY — Tax evasion charges have been filed in the Flick holding company influence peddling scandal, the Bonn state court said Thursday. Accused: Former economics ministers Otto Lambsdorff and Hans Friderichs and former Flick manager Eberhard von Brauchitsch. Brauchitsch also is charged with bribery. Lambsdorff and Friderichs: Also charged with accepting bribes. A joint trial is to start Aug. 29.